Word: wording
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...conversation and outward life of the average undergraduate show anything, they show a character which is not so entirely under the control of religion as might be inferred from the articles we have referred to. Surely we cannot assign to ourselves an amount of religion - using the word in a rather comprehensive sense - equal to that of outside communities, without casting aspersions upon our fathers and mothers, upon our uncles and aunts. It is of course absurd to suppose that any direct attempt is ever made to lead a man into wickedness, but I think we must all acknowledge that...
...hand in a theme corrected, a large deduction from the marks previously assigned is made. That, too, when the professor has acknowledged, on one occasion at least, that it was a matter of small importance. Not so much the good we derive from substituting a synonyme for the word we used before is considered, as the fact that this rule teaches us to be punctual. But why deductions are made from our rank, instead of demerits given to us for disobeying a college rule, is a puzzle. Then, too, a large amount is taken off, - a third of the maximum...
...student bothers himself very little with doctrinal disputation, is careless concerning the opinions of Emerson and Hale, and graduates, as his fathers did before him, supposing that he believes the dogmas of the sect in which he was born; that it is as impossible to express by a single word or sentence the religious characteristics of all the members of a great college as of all the people of Massachusetts; that there are men enough here, from most denominations, who live lives consistent with their principles, to give character to an ordinary sectarian "University"; that not a few leave college...
...conclude, in what we have said it has not been intended to slight the claims of the gymnasium, but simply to say a word for another kind of exercise, which is a favorite with many, but by others is looked on as of little importance...
...with no single word to warn...